The Council welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the AEMC’s Reliability Panel on the System Restart Standard, as the Council’s Members have become increasingly concerned in recent times about the ability of the National Electricity Market (NEM) to re-energise if parts of the power system are affected by a major supply disruption or black system event. Aluminium smelters are particularly vulnerable to prolonged outages but also may play a major role in rapidly stabilising a system following restart. The Council notes that Members may have also provided submissions directly to the AEMC.
